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8.15.2008

Archaeologists get a glimpse of life in a Sahara Eden - Los Angeles Times

A chance discovery by a team of American scientists has led to theunearthing of a Stone Age cemetery that is providing the first glimpsesof what life was like during the still-mysterious period when monsoonsbrought rain to the desert and created the "green Sahara."

Themore than 200 graves that have been explored so far indicate that,beginning 10,000 years ago, two populations lived on the shores of amassive lake, separated by a 1,000-year period during which the lakedried up.

8.08.2008

Rebirth of State Capitalism?

Democratic capitalism, it would appear, now has a great new rival -- autocratic capitalism. In Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, nations are beginning to imitate the autocrats of China and Russia, even as some in the 1930s sought to ape fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.